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Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through

dinsdag 5 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Elon Musk’s public confidence about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving rollout in Europe is, on the available evidence, not shared by the European regulators who would actually have to approve it. Reuters published an exclusive analysis of regulator emails a…

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Intel hires Qualcomm veteran Alex Katouzian to lead a new Client Computing and Physical AI group

dinsdag 5 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Lip-Bu Tan’s leadership of Intel has, since the early months of his tenure, run on a single recognisable pattern: hire from rivals, restructure around the new hires, and rebuild the bench. On Monday Intel announced its latest such move. Alex Katouzi…

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Meta is raising $13bn for one Texas data centre, a new ceiling for single-site AI financings

dinsdag 5 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The financing scaffolding around AI infrastructure keeps growing. Bloomberg reported on Sunday that Meta Platforms is working with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase on a financing package of roughly $13bn for a single data centre in El Paso, Texas. …

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eleQtron closes €57m Series A, one of Europe’s largest quantum-computing rounds

dinsdag 5 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Quantum computing has, for most of its commercial existence, been a category in which European labs do exceptional research and US and Asian companies do most of the venture funding. On Tuesday, the German trapped-ion quantum-computing scale-up eleQ…

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Musk settles SEC Twitter-disclosure case for $1.5m, the maximum penalty for the violation

dinsdag 5 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

After four years of litigation, Elon Musk has agreed to pay a $1.5m civil penalty over his late 2022 Twitter stake disclosure. The harm to other shareholders, the SEC alleged, was $150m. Elon Musk has, after nearly four years of litigation, settled …

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Three months after raising $30bn, Alphabet taps the euro market again

dinsdag 5 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Three months after a $30bn multi-currency raise, Google’s parent is back. The euro tranches expand one of the most active corporate borrowing programmes of the AI cycle. Three months after raising more than $30bn in a multi-currency global debt issu…

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Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Pinterest reported its first billion-dollar quarter last week. Revenue hit $1.008 billion in the first three months of 2026, up 18 per cent year on year, with monthly active users reaching 631 million for the tenth consecutive quarter of double-digi…

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Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. AI data centres are overloading it.

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Denmark generates more than 80 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources. Its wind farms, both onshore and offshore, have made the country a global model for clean energy transition. Its grid operator, Energinet, has spent decades buildin…

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Every government has an AI strategy. Dubai just gave its private sector a deadline.

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Every major government now has an AI strategy. Most involve pilot programmes, task forces, and multi-year roadmaps that promise transformation without specifying a deadline. Dubai has taken a different approach. On Sunday, Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan…

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Apple spent a decade waiting for developers to build Wallet passes. Now it is letting users build their own.

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Apple has spent more than a decade trying to get every gym, cinema, airline, and transit system on Earth to build native passes for its Wallet app. Most have not. The gym down your street still gives you a QR code in a standalone app. The cinema cha…

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A crypto VC raised $1 billion to fund AI agents. The bet is that finance, not models, is what they need.

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Katie Haun has raised $1 billion for two new venture funds at Haun Ventures, split evenly between early and later-stage vehicles to be deployed over the next two to three years. The capital will go into crypto and blockchain companies, which have …

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STMicroelectronics targets more than $3bn from space, riding the satellite constellation boom

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Geneva-based chipmaker has shipped over 5 billion RF antenna chips to Starlink and now expects its low-Earth-orbit business alone to deliver more than $3bn in cumulative revenue between 2026 and 2028. Orbital data centres are an option for later…

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Musk tried to settle the OpenAI case two days before trial. Then he promised to make Brockman the most hated man in America.

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman two days before trial to ask about settling. Brockman suggested Musk drop all claims against the individuals. Musk replied: “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, …

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GameStop wants to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. Its own revenue fell 27 per cent last year.

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Ryan Cohen announced on Saturday that GameStop has submitted an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire eBay for $125 per share, a cash-and-stock offer valuing the e-commerce company at approximately $55.5 billion. GameStop’s market capitalisat…

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CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid achieves the highest CCSS security certification level

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

As institutional crypto adoption accelerates, security standards are becoming a defining factor in provider selection. CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid, a regulated crypto payment gateway serving enterprise and institutional merchants globally, has ach…

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SAP buys Prior Labs to anchor a European frontier AI lab around tabular foundation models

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Eighteen months after a €9m pre-seed, the Freiburg-based pioneer of TabPFN is being acquired by SAP and will receive more than €1bn over four years. The terms are not disclosed; the strategic intent is unmistakable. When Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann,…

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Brussels reissues its Huawei warning, six years on, and prepares to make it stick

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The European Commission has formally recommended that member states keep Huawei and ZTE out of their connectivity infrastructure. The same restrictions are now moving toward becoming legally binding. China has already threatened to retaliate. When t…

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Europe’s finance chiefs want Mythos access to defend their banks. Washington has so far said no.

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

An Anthropic AI model that can find zero-days in every major operating system has become a geopolitical and prudential question. The Eurogroup met in Brussels on Monday with no answer in hand. Brussels on a Monday morning in early May is not, by tra…

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Italy’s largest vertical SaaS round: Smartness raises €47M to scale AI operations

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Trentino-based Smartness tech travel startup has just raised €47 million Series B, in a round including primary and secondary equity and debt, being the largest round completed for an Italian vertical SaaS company. Smartness is a tech company that o…

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OpenAI closes The Deployment Company, a $10bn enterprise AI bet on private equity

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

OpenAI has finalised the most structurally novel enterprise AI deal of 2026: a $10bn vehicle anchored by TPG, with 19 investors and a 17.5% guaranteed annual return over five years. The strategy is to make PE portfolios a captive distribution channe…

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Blackstone wants $1.75bn for the first AI-era data-centre REIT

maandag 4 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust will list on the NYSE under BXDC, targeting newly built data centres leased to hyperscalers. It is the most direct way Wall Street has yet packaged the AI build-out for public investors. For most of the past 1…

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